{"id":1146,"date":"2018-06-21T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T15:10:18","slug":"book-killer-thrillers-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/book-killer-thrillers-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Killer Thrillers (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1441196447l\/25752799.jpg\" alt=\"Killer Thrillers\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" \/>Killer Thrillers<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2015<br \/>\nAuthor: Nick Thacker<br \/>\nLength: 899 pages<\/p>\n<p>I was glad I picked this triad of books up for free, as I probably would have asked for my money back otherwise. Consisting of three books, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/12\/book-the-enigma-strain-2014\/\">The Enigma Strain<\/a><\/em> (with a bonus few chapters of the next book in the series), <em>The Atlantis Stone<\/em>, and <em>The Depths<\/em>, the drastic need for an editor (or beta reader group) became apparent by the end of the collection. I\u2019m almost a little disappointed that there were so many errors in proofreading and logic in these books since I would think they\u2019d be cleaned up a bit from their first publications in order to be compiled together here.<\/p>\n<p>While I did finish these three books, I can probably blame <em>The Enigma Strain<\/em> for that fact. The first book in this collection, <em>The Enigma Strain<\/em> was a passable thriller, even if it was a little clich\u00e9 and stereotypical. I was vastly more disappointed in <em>The Atlantis Stone<\/em>, which hardly made any coherent sense. With so many ill-defined characters running around, trying to meet an arbitrary deadline, it was painful to read. I hoped <em>The Atlantis Stone<\/em> was a fluke when I started <em>The Depths<\/em>, but its scientific continuity errors confirmed that the best book in this collection was the first one, and it all went downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ideas presented in these books seem interesting at first blush, but they\u2019re muddled down in so many other unnecessary things that the plots generally devolve into a race against the clock. Perhaps with some additional research, attention to detail, and revisions, these books could be pretty good. As they are now, they seem thrown together to earn a few bucks from people who throw money at any thriller with a somewhat intriguing cover and title. I\u2019m just glad the only thing I wasted was my time.<\/p>\n<p>Three books that still need some work done on them, I give <em>Killer Thrillers<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer Thrillers Year: 2015 Author: Nick Thacker Length: 899 pages I was glad I picked this triad of books up for free, as I probably would have asked for my money back otherwise. Consisting of three books, The Enigma Strain (with a bonus few chapters of the next book in the series), The Atlantis Stone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,54],"tags":[33,55,1345,751,1344,1249,8,1322,1342,1250],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-0-stars","category-book","tag-33","tag-book","tag-box-set","tag-collection","tag-killer-thrillers","tag-nick-thacker","tag-review","tag-the-atlantis-stone","tag-the-depths","tag-the-enigma-strain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}